1. Autograph letter signed from Henry Bruce to "Mrs Lyell", dated 15 February [?] 1856: "Lina has forwarded me your kind invitation for the 24th – Alas! I am engaged on that day to see old friend Mrs Drummond – I read with such pleasure your account of Sir Charles – Pray remember me to him & Lady Bunbury very affectionates [...]".

2. Autograph letter signed from Henry Bruce to Frances Joanna Horner, Lady Bunbury, dated 23 February [?] 1877: "I have much pleasure in inlaying two letters of introduction for your friends – I don’t know the address of M. de [...] – but it can easily be got at the Embassy – as they are the Layards’ [i. e. Sir Austen Henry and Mary Enid Evelyn, née Guest] intimate friends – I beg to thank you for your kind inquiries after the welfare of my leg. It is making slow but steady progress & I am, altho[ugh] timidly prudent, able now to crawl about with the help of one crutch – & hope soon to be permuted to a walking-stick. Norah & I are just starting for Pembroke Lodge, to pay a visit to the veteran Carl, who I fear is almost too deaf for conversation – He is eager to come to the House estate – but I never expect to see him there again [...]".